Philippine and U.S. service members install a water storage tank during an engineering civic assistance project in support of Balikatan 2017 in Ormoc City, Leyte, May 12, 2017. Philippine and U.S. service members worked together to build new classrooms for students at Don Carlos Elementary School. Balikatan is an annual U.S.-Philippine bilateral military exercise focused on a variety of missions, including humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, counterterrorism, and other combined military operations.
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